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Yesterday — 1 June 2024NBC News Top Stories

Mexico expected to elect first woman president in historic election

1 June 2024 at 19:14
In Mexico, two women vying for the presidency lead the polls for the first time in the country’s 200-year history. Claudia Sheinbaum and Xóchitl Gálvez will face off at the polls on Sunday against a backdrop of political bloodshed that has gripped the country. NBC News’ Guad Venegas reports.

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In Mexico, two women vying for the presidency lead the polls for the first time in the country’s 200-year history. Claudia Sheinbaum and Xóchitl Gálvez will face off at the polls on Sunday against a backdrop of political bloodshed that has gripped the country. NBC News’ Guad Venegas reports.

Police arrest 34 people at the Brooklyn Museum after pro-Palestinian protesters occupy building

The New York Police Department said Saturday it took 34 people into custody after responding to a pro-Palestinian protest in Brooklyn, New York, that led to reports of damaged artwork and staff harassment at the Brooklyn Museum.

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A banner hangs from the Brooklyn Museum in New York on Friday.

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Police detain a pro-Palestinian demonstrator in front of the Brooklyn Museum on Friday in New York.

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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators in New York City on May 31.

Boeing forced to call off its first launch with NASA astronauts once again

NASA and Boeing were forced once again to call off the first crewed launch of the company’s Starliner spacecraft.

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Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Saturday.

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Boeing's Starliner capsule, atop an Atlas V rocket on June 1, 2024, in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

Voting ends in the last round of India’s election, a referendum on PM Modi’s decade in power

India’s six-week-long national election came to an end Saturday as the last of the country’s hundreds of millions of voters went to the polls for a contest that’s widely seen as a referendum on Hindu Nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decade in power.

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People cast their ballot at a polling station on the outskirts of Amritsar on Saturday.

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Polling officials seal Electronic Voting Machines at a polling station in Jalandhar on Saturday.

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People stand in queues to cast their vote in Varanasi , India, on Saturday.

It’s officially Pride Month: Here’s everything you should know about the global LGBTQ celebration

Pride Month is celebrated annually in June to honor the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community. Its roots trace back to the 1969 Stonewall riots.

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A crowd attempts to impede police arrests outside the Stonewall Inn in New York's Greenwich Village on June 28, 1969.

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Activists hold a Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day banner on June 28, 1970.

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The São Paulo Pride Parade, pictured here in 2023, is one of the largest Pride celebrations int he world.

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The White House is lit up in rainbow colors on June 26, 2015, the day of the Supreme Court's Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which granted same-sex couples federal marriage rights.

The number of deaths in ICE custody is already more than double all of last year

1 June 2024 at 07:30
Ten people have died while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody so far this fiscal year, more than twice as many as last year and three times as many as the year before, according to ICE data and news releases.

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An immigration detainee is processed at the Krome North Service Processing Center in Miami in 2019.

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Detainees at the Winn Correctional Center in Winnfield, La., in 2019.

She was 14 when a U.S. pilot was shot down near her home in France. 80 years later, she’s keeping his memory alive.

Eighty years after an American fighter plane was shot down during World War II, a village in northern France has commemorated the pilot's memory.

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Paul Chaufty was initially reported as missing before he was officially declared killed in action in the fall of 1944.

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Local residents put up an American flag to mark the site where Chaufty’s plane crashed near the French village of St. Elliers Les Bois.

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Nicole and Mireille hold hands aboved Marie Bastien at a ceremony for Paul Chaufty.

Some drugmakers to cap cost of asthma inhalers at $35 a month

Starting Saturday, the cost of inhalers will fall for many Americans, as new out-of-pocket price caps go into effect for the asthma medications from AstraZeneca and Boehringer Ingelheim.

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Caycee Shapland, pictured with her husband and children, can spend up to $350 a month on her son Jackson's asthma medications.

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Bil and Shannon Schmidtknecht with their son, Cole, center. Cole died in January after he had a severe asthma attack.

Drug companies cap prices of asthma inhalers

31 May 2024 at 19:19
Starting Saturday, millions of Americans will get a price break on asthma inhalers. Several pharmaceutical companies have announced price caps on the devices. But some say the bigger issue is the overall high cost of prescription drugs. NBC News' Anne Thompson reports.

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Starting Saturday, millions of Americans will get a price break on asthma inhalers. Several pharmaceutical companies have announced price caps on the devices. But some say the bigger issue is the overall high cost of prescription drugs. NBC News' Anne Thompson reports.
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Against the odds, baseball team makes it to the College World Series

31 May 2024 at 19:10
Though the college it represents just shut down, members of the Birmingham-Southern Panthers baseball team have outlasted the Alabama school, making it to the College World Series. NBC News' Jesse Kirsch reports.

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Though the college it represents just shut down, members of the Birmingham-Southern Panthers baseball team have outlasted the Alabama school, making it to the College World Series. NBC News' Jesse Kirsch reports.

Vermont becomes first state to mandate that fossil fuel companies pay for climate damages

A new law in Vermont — the first of its kind in the U.S. — will require fossil fuel companies to pay for a share of the costs of extreme weather fueled by climate change.

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Ethan Poploski's family home was destroyed by a landslide in Ripton, Vermont, in July 2023.

He posed as a Hollywood hotshot. He was actually a 'master manipulator' with a dark fantasy.

Victor Paleologus often portrayed himself as a well-connected figure in the entertainment industry. In reality, he was a failed restaurant owner and "master manipulator."

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Victor Paleologus, left, with his lawyer, center, is interviewed in 2005.

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Cathy DeBuono.

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Victor Paleologus in criminal court, in Los Angeles, in 2003.

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The California Institution for Men facility where Victor Paleologus is being held in Chino, Calif.

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Kristi Johnson had hoped to work in the film industry.

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Kristi Johnson (left) with her mother, Terry Hall.

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Kristi Johnson, with her mother, Terry Hall, at concert in 2001, was 21 when she was killed.

Marian Robinson, Michelle Obama's mother, dies at 86

Marian Robinson, former First Lady Michelle Obama’s mother, has died, according to a family statement shared with NBC News.

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Marian Robinson moved to Washington, D.C., to help take care of her granddaughters in the White House.

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Marian Robinson, pictured on the right with her granddaughter, Malia Obama, and daughter, Michelle Obama, was a fixture in the White House during Barack Obama's presidency.

Guilty verdict will likely not affect plans for intel briefings for Trump, official says

31 May 2024 at 11:00
Thursday's guilty verdict likely will not affect plans by U.S. intelligence agencies to brief ex-President Donald Trump once he is the GOP presidential nominee.

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A photo included in the indictment against former President Donald Trump shows boxes of records in a storage room at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. Trump faces 40 felony charges related to the handling of classified documents.
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